Reviews Published for Film 'Tangles'
Multiple reviews have been published for the film 'Tangles', which explores themes of dementia and Alzheimer's. Critics describe the film as a sweet, sad, and sometimes generic look at the disease, with striking animation honoring an artist's account of losing her mother.
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Top Gun review – now impossible to view Tom Cruise’s testosterone-swamped film without affection
This gave a young Cruise entry into the A-list, as the brilliant, courageous rule-breaking pilot, frenemy of Val Kilmer and in love with Kelly McGillis ‘This gives me a hard-on”; “Don’t tease me”; “I want some BUTTS!” The comedy takes on sexual identity in Top Gun have become so widespread after Quentin Tarantino’s monologue on the subject that it would be revisionist now to claim that this film was 100% heterosexual. But maybe the joke arose from cinephiles’ civilian naivety about what milit...
By Peter Bradshaw
Read full article →‘Tangles’ Review: Striking Animation Honors an Artist’s Heartbreaking Account of Losing Her Mother to Alzheimer’s
The distinctive visual storytelling of Canadian cartoonist Sarah Leavitt is deftly and stylishly transferred to the big screen in “Tangles,” an honestly felt and highly affecting adaptation of her autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. Chronicling with tenderness and idiosyncratic humor her mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Leavitt’s memoir has become a touchstone work […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘Tangles’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson and Bryan Cranston Lead a Sweet, Sad, Slightly Generic Look at Dementia
A well-regarded illustrated memoir has been adapted into an animated film for grown-ups, with a starry voice cast including Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman and Bowen Yang.
By Richard Lawson
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